Question of my financial status insulting, I’m wealthier than most people think – Fani-Kayode

By Our Correspondent

 

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that it is very insulting and ridiculous to be asked if his defection to the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, which he had always criticised, was financially-induced.

Fani-Kayode, who was on Channels TV on Thursday night to speak on his recent defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to APC, said he had never lacked in finances.

Responding to a question, Fani-Kayode said, “I don’t expect that kind of ridiculous and absurd question from you.

“I have never ever lacked in finances.

“There have been no inducements.

“Politicians don’t move because of finances. If I wanted finance, I would have moved a lot sooner than today.

“I have struggled and I have fought over the last six years than any of the little monkeys that said what you just said to me now.

“I stand proud and I stand tall.

“The kind of family I come from, the kind of background I have, finance is never an issue; but of course, this is always the absurd narrative that people with a very small brain, with low intelligence quotient will always put out when they feel threatened, and I don’t care.

 

“You can insult me from morning till night. It means nothing to me.

“What is important to me is my God and the fact that I am doing the right thing at the right time.

“I am considerably wealthier than most people think and I don’t need anything from anybody.

“I work hard, I have always worked hard and I never lacked anything good.

“When I was fighting the government, you didn’t talk about finances or no finances.

“Now that I am not fighting the government, you are talking about finances or no finances.

“It’s an old narrative.

“It’s an old story particularly from Nigerians from a particular segment of society like to say about those of us that are in the elite, and I am not prepared for such rubbish and I am surprised you can ask me that kind of question.

“Why don’t you go and ask a number of others that same question when they defect.

“It’s a very insulting question and no basis for it whatsoever.”